(December 2007)
Archie,
1984 Series
- Price
- 3.69 USD; 4.39 CAD
- Pages
- 180
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- 9 times a year in Feb., Mar., Apr., June, July, Aug., Sept., Nov. and Dec.
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- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
The Archie Digest Library
- Barcode
- 071896469516 83
- Editing
- ?
High Scoring Hijinks
Archie / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Raj Patel; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Uncle Sashi
- Synopsis
- Raj takes his friends to India to meet his Uncle Sashi and visit his video game company.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- India; video game
Flight of the Bumble
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Mr. Weatherbee; Moose Mason; Miss Grundy; Tug
- Synopsis
- Betty brings an expensive bird to school for a project. The bird gets loose and Archie tries to capture it, causing a ruckus while the bird flies back into its cage.
- Reprints
-
from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #349 (July 1987)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from the original printing, no credits are listed in this digest.
The Iron Bulldog
Archie / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Moose Mason; Chuck Clayton; Reggie Mantle; Pop Tate (cameo); Coach Kleats; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Mr. Weatherbee (cameo); Miss Grundy (cameo)
- Synopsis
- The Summitville football team steals the Riverdale mascot, an iron bulldog statue, and paints it green as a taunt. However, with strong community support the Riverdale team wins the game and proudly displays their returned mascot.
- Reprints
- from Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 1972 series) #113 (February 1987)
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- Keywords
- football
Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprint in Archie's Super Comics Digest (Sterling Publishing Co, Inc., 2012 series) #2, no credits listed in this digest.
Classy Lassy
Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie; Reggie; Tina Patel; Miss Grundy
- Synopsis
- The boys are sneaking looks at Tina, who is seated by the pencil sharpener. Archie sharpens a mechanical pencil, because it's the only one he's got.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #107 (December 1966)
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- Keywords
- high school
Are You Game?
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Bill Golliher (credited)
- Pencils
- Tim Kennedy (credited)
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Vickie Williams (credited)
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- With the power out, Archie and his parents decide to play a board game.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #135 (September 2002)
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Indexer Notes
Credits from the original printing, no credits listed in this digest.
Prize Proof
Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Jughead has a portable vacuum.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #283 (January 1982)
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Uptight Sight
Mr. Weatherbee / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi, Mr. Weatherbee!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mr. Weatherbee
- Synopsis
- Mr. Weatherbee is tired of seeing Archie everywhere he goes.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Joke Book Magazine (Archie, 1953 series) #262 (November 1979)
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Game Aim
Coach Kleats / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; sports; teen
- Characters
- Coach Kleats; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Dilton Doily; Sabrina Spellman
- Synopsis
- Coach Kleats tells the team to practice good sportsmanship.
- Reprints
- from Pep (Archie, 1960 series) #287 (March 1974)
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Indexer Notes
note that Dilton Doiley is on the football team.
Loyalty Loss
Archie / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Frank Doyle (credited)
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (credited)
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- drama; teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Nancy Woods; Mr. Weatherbee; Coach Kleats; Archie Andrews; Chuck Clayton; Frankie Valdez; Mabel
- Synopsis
- Horton High has a female baseball captain on the high-school team, which causes the Riverdale cheerleaders to root for the enemy.
- Reprints
- from Archie at Riverdale High (Archie, 1972 series) #54 (June 1978)
-
- Keywords
- baseball
Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprint in Archie & Friends Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #32.
Told in two parts.
It's Your Move
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Fred Andrews
- Synopsis
- The news of Archie moving out of Riverdale shocks the gang. But they decide to make Archie miserable so that he'll want to move, to make it easier on him.
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #136 (April 1963)
-
- Keywords
- friendship; kissing; smoking
Indexer Notes
Credits from the index of the original printing, no credits listed in this digest.
The Award
Little Archie / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Dexter Taylor (credited)
- Pencils
- Dexter Taylor (credited)
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Coach Kleats; Little Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Coach Kleats has a full season of football without an accident until Little Archie injures him during an award dinner.
- Reprints
- from Little Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #77 (April 1973)
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- Keywords
- football
A Good Skate
Little Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Little Archie Andrews; Little Betty Cooper; Little Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Little Betty takes Little Archie's skateboard.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #135 (September 2002)
-
- Keywords
- skateboard
Golf Puzzle Page
Little Archie / activity / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Little Reggie Mantle; Little Betty Cooper; Little Archie Andrews
- Reprints
- from Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #135 (September 2002)
-
- Keywords
- golf; maze
Indexer Notes
Maze puzzle.
The Fortune Teller
Little Archie / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Little Archie; Spotty; Mr. Penbinder; Joseph Pullitzer
- Synopsis
- Little Archie tries to get a job as a newspaper writer and isn't doing well until he meets a mysterious stranger on a park bench who hands him tomorrow's paper.
- Reprints
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #53 (May 1969)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprint in Archie Double Digest (2011 series) #314.
Riddle Diddles
Little Archie / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Little Archie; Little Jughead; Little Reggie
- Reprints
- in Archie's Funhouse Double Digest (Archie, 2014 series) #17 (January 2016)
-
- Keywords
- riddle
Indexer Notes
First riddle: "Why did Reggie take a bike to bed?"
The Report Card
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Archie; Reggie; Veronica; Miss Grundy; Mr. Andrews
- Synopsis
- Little Archie wants to take Veronica out, but his dad will ground him if he has a bad report card. He fakes illness to leave before they're handed out, but Reggie "helpfully" offers to personally deliver at Little Archie's home. Both boys are shocked when Mr. Andrews is thrilled at the grades, and even gives him extra money for the date. It turns out that Little Archie's card has been switched with Dilton's.
- Reprints
- from The Adventures of Little Archie (Archie, 1961 series) #53 (May 1969)
-
- Keywords
- Elementary school; report card
The Invitation
Little Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Veronica Lodge; Little Betty Cooper; Little Archie Andrews; Little Jughead Jones; Hal Cooper
- Synopsis
- When Betty hears that Mr. Lodge is mad at Little Archie and forbid Veronica to look at him, Betty invites Little Archie over to her house to watch the big game.
- Reprints
Prime Time Pickup
The Archies / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Reprints
- from Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #150 (July 1990)
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Animated!
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Harold Smith
- Pencils
- Tim Kennedy
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Superintendent Hassle; Ms. Phlips
- Synopsis
- A band's poster has the power to hypnotize whoever looks at it.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #55 (March 2001)
-
- Keywords
- hypnotism
Clumsy Caper
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Michael Pellowski (credited as Mike Pellowski)
- Pencils
- Todd Smith (credited)
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick (credited)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Melanie
- Synopsis
- Archie meets a cute girl who is as clumsy as he is.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 series) #70 (December 2002)
-
Indoor Game
Mr. Lodge / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Hiram Lodge; Veronica Lodge; Smithers
- Synopsis
- Archie manages to sabotage Mr. Lodge's repair of his golf driving net for the noblest of reasons.
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #345 (January 1987)
-
Indexer Notes
formerly an Archie story.
Hitting the Roof
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Joe Edwards (credited)
- Pencils
- Joe Edwards (credited)
- Inks
- Jim DeCarlo (credited as Jimmy DeCarlo)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman (credited); Nanci Dakesian (credited); Ginny Sykora (credited)
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Mr. Lodge
- Synopsis
- Veronica has Archie come over to install a satellite dish.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Story & Game Digest Magazine (Archie, 1986 series) #3 (June 1987)
-
- Keywords
- satellite dish
Mind Games
Archie 3000 / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Rich Margopoulos
- Pencils
- Tim Kennedy
- Inks
- Rod Ollerenshaw
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Rod Ollerenshaw ?
- Genre
- science fiction; teen; humor
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Fred Andrews; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie and Reggie play a new video game where they compete to see who can kiss the most girls, which makes Betty and Veronica jealous.
- Reprints
- from Archie 3000 (Archie, 1989 series) #15 (May 1991)
-
Piece of My Mind
Archie 3000 / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- science fiction; teen; humor
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Dilton Doiley; Betty Cooper; Droideena; Veronica Lodge; Pop Tate; Reggie Mantle (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Dilton creates a beautiful android girl using Betty's mind as the pattern. However, since Betty was angry with Archie during the brain transfer process, Droideena is also mad at Archie and ruins his date with Veronica.
- Reprints
- from Archie 3000 (Archie, 1989 series) #15 (May 1991)
-
Pie A La Mountain
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- Archie treks across country on foot, twice, to get Veronica a pizza.
- Reprints
- from Archie's Pals 'n' Gals (Archie, 1952 series) #192 (October 1987)
-
- Keywords
- pizza; summer camp
Indexer Notes
Credits from the original printing of this story.
Not So Quiet on the Cold Front
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- George Gladir
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg
- Inks
- Henry Scarpelli
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Mary Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate; Pierre; Cheryl Blossom
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #466 (December 1997)
-
Jug's Jokes
Jughead / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Nelson Ribeiro (signed)
- Pencils
- Nelson Ribeiro (signed)
- Inks
- Nelson Ribeiro (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Pop Tate
- Synopsis
- Jughead asks Archie how to fix a broken pizza.
- Reprints
- from Jughead & Friends Digest Magazine (Archie, 2005 series) #24 (December 2007)
-
Group Gripe
The Archies / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- George Gladir
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg
- Inks
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- The Archies [Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper]
- Synopsis
- Reggie pays people to act as his fans so that he can claim that he's the most popular member of The Archies.
- Reprints
- from Everything's Archie (Archie, 1969 series) #117 (May 1985)
-
Ad About You
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Michael Pellowski (credited as Mike Pellowski)
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (credited)
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida (credited)
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews
- Synopsis
- Fred is worried that Archie sees too much advertising so he takes him fishing to get away from the tv commercials.
- Reprints
- from Archie & Friends (Archie, 1992 series) #25 (October 1997)
-
- Keywords
- advertising; fishing
Another Way
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Jim Ruth (credited)
- Pencils
- Chic Stone (credited)
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What am I going to do... I promised to make a speech to the school board today, but I have laryngitis and I can't talk!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Mr. Weatherbee; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Mr. Weatherbee has laryngitis, but must make a speech to the school board.
- Reprints
- from Archie and Me (Archie, 1964 series) #157 (June 1986)
-
- Keywords
- laryngitis
Claim to Fame
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Reggie's field goal wins the game!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Coach Kleats; Moose Mason; Dilton Doiley
- Synopsis
- When Reggie goes down with a twisted ankle, Archie gets to win the big game, but Reggie still gets the glory.
- Reprints
- from Reggie and Me (Archie, 1966 series) #93 (January 1977)
-
- Keywords
- football
Indexer Notes
Credits from the reprint in Archie's Super Comics Digest (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc) #2.
Dream Boy
Archie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mr. Lodge, sir! You look ill! Shall I call the doctor?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Hiram Lodge; Hubert Smithers; Archie Andrews (dream sequence and reality); Jughead Jones (dream sequence); Reggie Mantle (dream sequence)
- Synopsis
- Mr. Lodge tells Smithers about a nightmare he had in which Archie married Veronica. In the dream Lodge also gives Archie a high paying job at the plant.
- Reprints
- from Archie (Archie, 1959 series) #165 (July 1966)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits taken from Archie #165 entry.
Generation Veneration
Archie / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- George Gladir (credited)
- Pencils
- ? [as Kennedy] (credited)
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Fred Andrews; Fred's father; Rita Sanchez; Mr. Weatherbee; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper; Reggie Mantle; Mary Andrews
- Synopsis
- Assistant Principal Sanchez sets up an exhibit for the kids showcasing old technology.
- Reprints
- in World of Archie Double Digest (Archie, 2010 series) #62 (October 2016)
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Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Pay attention, Archie! It's our new video game!"]
Archie -
1.
High Scoring Hijinks
Archie -
2.
Flight of the Bumble
Archie -
3.
The Iron Bulldog
Archie -
4.
Classy Lassy
Archie -
5.
Are You Game?
Archie -
6.
Prize Proof
Archie -
7.
Uptight Sight
Mr. Weatherbee -
8.
Game Aim
Coach Kleats -
9.
Loyalty Loss
Archie -
10.
It's Your Move
Archie -
11.
The Award
Little Archie -
12.
A Good Skate
Little Archie -
13.
Golf Puzzle Page
Little Archie -
14.
The Fortune Teller
Little Archie -
15.
Riddle Diddles
Little Archie -
16.
The Report Card
Little Archie -
17.
The Invitation
Little Archie -
18.
Prime Time Pickup
The Archies -
19.
Animated!
Archie -
20.
Clumsy Caper
Archie -
21.
Indoor Game
Mr. Lodge -
22.
Hitting the Roof
Archie -
23.
Mind Games
Archie 3000 -
24.
Piece of My Mind
Archie 3000 -
25.
Pie A La Mountain
Archie -
26.
Not So Quiet on the Cold Front
Archie -
27.
Jug's Jokes
Jughead -
28.
Group Gripe
The Archies -
29.
Ad About You
Archie -
30.
Another Way
Archie -
31.
Claim to Fame
Archie -
32.
Dream Boy
Archie -
33.
Generation Veneration
Archie
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- Peter Croome
- Katy Hayhurst
- Keith Alan Morgan
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